Netanyahu in the commission of inquiry into the Miron disaster.
What will remain in the public memory from such a long career?/Image processing, Yonatan Zindel/Flash 90
It seems that since last night, when the Likud's response to the investigation committee's conclusions was published, all the commenters competed among themselves to find the appropriate word to describe their distaste for the message and its style.
I didn't really count, but I think the word "shameful" dominated the conversation.
It seems possible to agree: the Likud's reaction disgusts anyone with a shred of sanity left in them, that is - anyone who does not share the opinion of the one who, in my view, is entitled to the "Illusory Reaction of the Week" award (and those who are on the various networks know how tough the competition is), a lady named Shari Zadok Azoulai, who posted on her Twitter account: "It is not impossible that the Miron disaster was also planned in detail" - and accuses the "Left" of deliberately narrowing the crossings "ahead of time" (see the full tweet in the picture).
Did we say "delusional"?
Definitely, but also very calculated: the language is high relative to a large part of the publications on the platform and it is clear that they thought about every word, especially the word "also", to teach us that there is a chance that more disasters, perhaps even bigger ones, were planned in detail as part of a plot to overthrow Netanyahu...
sad asked the last people left by the side of the man whose old age puts his youth to shame.
Sad but not surprising: from Shabtai Zvi to Jim Jones, these are always the last to stay, convert to Islam, commit suicide (referring of course to the two examples above).
In a little while they will be their own problem, until then the fact that this mindset is what feeds the "prime minister's environment", is the problem of all of us.
The tweet that accuses the left of planning the disaster in Miron/screenshot, screenshot, Twitter
Prime Minister's smile
I once wrote here that "Netanyahu's environment" is his fig leaf.
Every time they perceive that they have exaggerated, they drop the bag on the boy or the lady.
I really have no idea who writes the official announcements of the Likud, the largest political organization in Israel, which has an organized mechanism of spokespersons.
There can be two possibilities for the reaction to the media: either Netanyahu drafted it, knew about it and approved its publication - in which case it is a serious incident - or he knew nothing, just like on the morning of the seventh of October, at the time of the raid on which he is entrusted as a top manager (according to his own words -himself on the supreme and absolute responsibility of the prime minister, both for what he knew and for what he did not know) a failure almost along the entire chain.
Even in the other camp, delusional fringes have developed over the years, such as those who are sure that there is intelligent planning here.
This morning they tweeted things like: "Instead of the essence, we are all dealing with the reaction."
This may be true, but those who think that there is some genius here, to make us deal with the style and not the content, are wrong - and not only because sometimes the style is the real content, like a song where the melody is more important than the words, but because like the Cheshire cat in "Alice in Wonderland" (whose smile remained suspended in the air after his body faded), this is what will be remembered of the man who wanted to enter the pages of history as the "Defender of Israel".
That is to say - the bad, deranged spirit, the one whose escape from responsibility for failures is quick, but only slightly faster than the speed with which it rushes to appropriate the successes of others, this crazy ruling culture, the opposite of everything the leadership should be - is the legacy that will remain from the most significant political career of any Israeli statesman.
Therefore, perhaps the appropriate word for the Likud's response to the conclusions of the State Commission of Inquiry is "sad" rather than "shameful".
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Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana. He will no longer be minister of the BTP, but what about the position of minister of defense?/Official website, Yonatan Zindel
What is a committee's conclusion worth?
This does not mean that the committee's report does not have some conclusions that require explanation.
For example, the conclusions in the case of the current Speaker of the Knesset and former Minister of Internal Security, Amir Ohana. The committee determined that Ohana could no longer serve as Minister of Internal Security. This is a puzzling statement. Why is it puzzling? Because either Ohana can serve as a Kosher minister in future Israeli governments, or
he cannot.
The Ministry of Internal Security no longer exists, so what did the sages bring up in their regulation? Is the Minister of National Security a position that he can hold? And if so, since it is possible that Ohana has many more years of a public career - what would happen if tomorrow he was appointed to the position of Minister of Defense? At least on his face A ministry that deals more with human rights than the Ministry of Internal Security...
and what will happen if one day he aspires to be elected to the position of Prime Minister, the one responsible for the safety of all Israeli citizens (or at least one who consistently runs away from this responsibility...).
This question is important not only in the context of Ohana (meaning the previous disaster) but also in the context of the one that will arise regarding the disaster we are still in the midst of.
It is likely that until it is decided to establish it, until it is assembled, until it gathers evidence and until it presents its conclusions, there will no longer be among the potential defendants anyone who will remain in his position. And since , what do we do if it is determined that today's Chief of Staff, Lt. Col. Herzi Halevi - who certainly has a part in the terrible omission - can no longer command the Israel Defense Forces?
After all, by then he will have taken off his uniform (my assessment: he won't even wait until the end of his term and will resign immediately when the fighting stops), so he won't be Chief of Staff, but what if he wants a political career and finds himself a candidate for the position of Minister of Defense? And I will mention that we are dealing with theory only) from being the commander of the IDF, he will become in a few years the commander of the commander?
Perhaps for the first time a manager is not fighting for political survival but for a place in historical memory.
Netanyahu/image processing, Yonatan Zindel/Flash 90
Don't wait for the "October Committee"
Commissions of inquiry are the modern exorcism ritual.
Their role is often to continue to make us - by exposing serious errors to the jurist - continue to believe in the system, that when it works, our safety is guaranteed.
We won't go into all this discussion now, but a commission of inquiry is like a trial: imagine a trial where there is no conviction but only the imposition of responsibility?
In any case, let me spare you the expectation of an investigation into the events of October 7 through a committee: until it submits its conclusions, none of the heroes of the grave failure in Israel's history will be in their position.
Strong on Netanyahu that he knows this.
Therefore, if someone thinks that he is talking about the investigation committee for the Meron disaster and already means the October 7 committee, then he is wrong.
As long as Netanyahu is in power, such a committee will not be established (just as was the case with the Miron disaster).
The mandate for the committee that will be established will be that of the next government, which, at least according to the polls, there is more than a good chance that it will not head it.
If you do get up and if you do investigate the failure in detail - if you do draw personal conclusions at the end of a long procedure of warning letters and all the known procedure, then it will be when Netanyahu is about 80 years old, probably not even a candidate for another term.
Meaning - Netanyahu is now fighting not only for his survival, but also - and perhaps mainly - for his legacy.
This is the place to stop for a moment and remember that only a few months ago we still hoped, he and we, that his legacy would be a railroad from India to Israel through Saudi Arabia.
I mean - it's not just that we rolled into the abyss, but we did it from the top of a mountain.
Back to the Prime Minister: he hopes that the wild attack will call into question the legitimacy of the committee's ruling (which, despite placing personal responsibility on him, did not recommend anything in his case), so that the ruling of the next committee, even assuming it will not stand up to public scrutiny, will also be called into question in advance.
It is possible that he is doing the right thing, and it is possible that this is a historical mistake: even before the next committee passes judgment, Netanyahu's more than 30 years in Israeli politics will be cataloged as leaving a "shameful" legacy, just like the word they used to define this "Likud response" formulated by "Environment Netanyahu".
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